From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) LinkSys USB100TX USB network adapter module (pegasus) not loading on plugin Kodak DC260 digital camera module (dc2xx) not loading on plugin Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. plug in LinkSys USB nic 2. plug in dc260 camera 3. Actual Results: Hotplug was not able to find a module for either device Expected Results: Appropriate module should be loaded upon plug-in of said device(s) hotplug version S20001126a doesn't work hotplug-1.9-1 works for NIC, don't have camera to test now
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
As you wrote, it should work with newer hotplug versions - the old one broke when 2.4.0 changed its behaviour from what the prereleases used.